Demonstrate a solid understanding in the selection and application of basic programming language constructs and data types required to write a simple program.

Define instance methods and classes, and use them in writing programs of small to moderate size.

Use the standard programming libraries, and in particular those parts of dealing with files and collections.

Write programs that employ reading and writing text files, reading and writing sequential and random binary files, and accessing the web.

Design and implement simple algorithms for searching, sorting, text handling, and arithmetic, and assess their time complexity.

Given a particular problem (e.g. searching, sorting), be able to implement both iterative and recursive solutions.

Write basic programs that use the most important data structures, including lists, sets and maps.

Proceed from informal descriptions of simple problems to design and implementation of programming solutions.

Comply with good software engineering principles in making programs, such as readability, maintainability, information hiding, and levels of abstraction.

Developing good program Design methodology & styling

Problem Solving (also things like computational thinking)

Abstraction

Classes & objects

Data Structures (general or implied complex like stacks, queues etc)

Variables, assignment, arithmetic expressions, declarations, data types

Searching algorithms

Sorting Algorithms

File handling & I/O

Evaluating Time/Space Complexity

Recursion